Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...
NEW YORK-3607 Communications Co. announced it plans to begin offering Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular service commercially early next month in Las Vegas.The company also announced second quarter earnings.The Las Vegas CDMA launch, available to existing and new 3607 customers, would be the...
U.K. wireless operator Orange plc claimed victory last week after a High Court judge dismissed a complaint made by Vodafone Group plc following the launch of a comparative ad campaign by Orange."It's good to win the court case, but it was absurd to be...
Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Paging Network Inc. to offer PageNet's wireless messaging services, including the company's line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers. PageNet will provide Comcast with customized equipment and other turnkey programs that can include pager leasing,...
NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc said it is paying $52 million to buy the 67 percent of reseller Talkland International (UK) Ltd. that it doesn't already own from Companie Generale des Eaux of France.Talkland is one of the United Kingdom's top resellers, reporting more than...
A stern letter from the European Commission has gone out to dozens of wireless operators and phone manufacturers in Europe about the use of SIM card locks."With this pressure, we are trying to head off any agreements or the establishment of such a standard,"...
CellStar Corp. said it has a tentative Fortune 500 buyer for its kiosk business located in 347 Sam's Club stores nationwide, the expenses of which led to the company's disappointing first-quarter results.The investment community had estimated CellStar's net income would be at least $5...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
Great Britain's Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator British Telecommunications plc unfair interconnect rates."Oftel is concerned that Cellnet and Vodafone may be exploiting the market power they enjoy...
The groundwork for a head-to-head duel between factories is being laid in Brazil, where Nokia Group and Motorola Inc. both are establishing handset manufacturing plants.Brazil has 1.2 million cellular subscribers, making it the most prolific cellular market in Latin America. An annual growth rate...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has been awarded an $8 million contract by Celtel to install a cellular telephone system in Honduras.The Advanced Mobile Phone Service network initially will provide service to customers in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San...
Netherlands-based electronics giant Philips Electronics NV is mounting a new campaign to become one of the top three vendors to the global cellular handset market.Philips Mobile Phones launched a new business group in January called Philips Consumer Communications based in Le Mans, France. The...
Phoenix Wireless Group has installed a wireless local loop network in Paraguay to provide rural dwellers in the town of Pirapou with basic telephone service.Communications access is limited in Paraguay, a country whose land mass is comparable in size to the state of California,...
MUNICH-Siemens AG won contracts worth $64.7 million from the Iridium mobile phone network. Siemens said that Motorola Inc., which founded and leads the Iridium project, placed an order for 12 switching systems with Siemens' public communications networks division.The Iridium system plans to use 66...
Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent of the Chugoku operator, as well as five other Digital TU-KA cellular companies offering...
Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...
Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of about 3.8 million shares of its common stock. The offering will be managed by Alex, Brown & Sons Inc., Donaldson, Lufkin...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has deployed its wireless local loop network in Benin, Africa, providing phone service for the first time to many remote customers.The network uses a narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service radio interface and was initially deployed...
The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there.Earlier this year, Indonesia's government gave the state-owned operator the nation's first license for personal communications services. Other PCS licenses are...
SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries.Motorola Inc. has formed a joint venture with two Chinese entities to manufacture CDMA infrastructure products...
Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to Eden, a fully owned subsidiary of Nexus set up to operate the messaging system and provide its services in Israel....
NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services."Most of the research we've looked at and most of what our customers tell us is that local, long...
Cloners beware, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are active with authentication technology-each carrier in two markets."We've taken the next step from protection to prevention. It's like a little Fort Knox for your phone," said Steve Fleischer, general manager of corporate...
Nokia profits down in first quarterA 62 percent decrease in operating profit reported by the Nokia Group has been attributed to Nokia Mobile Phones.The Finnish manufacturer's handset division struggled with low phone prices and slow sales during its first quarter. Sales of mobile handsets...
